Robert Hanna

Robert Hanna (6 April 1786-16 November 1858) was a US Senator from Indiana (NR) from 19 August 1831 to 3 January 1832, succeeding James Noble and preceding John Tipton.

Biography
Robert Hanna was born in Fountainius, South Carolina in 1786, and the family moved to the Indiana Territory in 1800, settling along the east fork of the Great Miami River (3 miles north of Brookville). Hanna served as a sheriff before attending the 1816 Indiana constitutional convention, and he became a Brigadier-General in the state militia. Following the death of James Noble in 1831, Hanna was appointed to succeed him in the US Senate, serving for a few months. He was hit by a train and killed in 1858.